The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press The book opens on a

The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978

and then her husband

” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages

she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction

urgent prose

The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press The book opens on aFrom the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wifes reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. A captivating, whip smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it. Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country When twenty three year old Eileen OMalley meets charismatic